Tina T. Tuff, a blogger for Australian magazine Gay News Network, wrote a column about Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks and their years at Mount Holyoke College.

Sample quote: "Come to mention it, the way these two met was kind of sexy. It was around 1895 in an all-girls [sic] college. Hello! Mary Woolley was a 32-year-old teacher, a brilliant intellect who achieved greatness over her lifetime as an educator and feminist campaigner. Jeanette Marks was a pupil eleven years Woolley’s junior. Woolley took a ‘special interest’ in her young, clever charge, and the pair fell madly in love."

Read the full blog post here: http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/viewpoint/viewpoint/3859-tuff-muff-mary-woolley-and-jeanette-marks.html